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So I was reading Gundam the Origin 9 a few days ago.Something fun that finally made sense to me in 0079 Gundam that didn't really have anything explain it was Tem Ray. From the 0079 movies I got the impression that Tem Ray was just a crazy old man off his rocker that I didn't see much of up until that point. But then the Origin explains the backstory on the Gundam and Tem Ray leading the project and it cast a whole different light on him. I got to the part where he meets Amuro by chance and gives him the circuit thing and Amuro said he had this Oxygen condition I had never heard of before. Looking it up, it was a mental condition from lack of oxygen that messed up your mental state in a lot of ways. Which totally makes sense since he got blasted off in the destruction of Side 7 and was probably floating out there a really long time.

TLDR: Tem Ray wasn't just some crazy old guy, he was a brillaint man who built the Gundam that suffered mentally from a lack of Oxygen due to being in space too long.